Shoestring-fastener.



A. G. HANSEN.

SHOESTRING FASTENER. APPLICATION FILED MAR.11,1913.

1 .101Q27'7. Patented June 23,191;

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remitted iih23f191 53 Application filed March 11, 1913. Serial No. 753,556.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED GEoRo HAN; SEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cathlamet, in the county of Wahkiakum and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Shoestring-Fastener, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to shoes and has for its object the production of an eflicient binding means to which the laces may be bound after the shoe has been laced, and means for engaging the free ends or" said laces.

. Another object of this invention is the production of an efiicient clamping member which is adapted to engage the laces of a shoe, and which is provided with means for prezienting the same from becoming loosene I With'these. and other objects in view this invention consists in general of certain novel combinations, constructions, and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawing: Figure l is a front elevation of the portion of ashoe showing the device as constructed in accordance, with the invention. Fig. 2 1s a transverse section through a portion of the shoe and through the binding member and clamping member. Fig. dis a top plan view of the clamping member. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the binding member. Fig. 5 is a top plan of the-blank which forms a supporting plate for the'binding member. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the binding arm showing a portion of the same in longitudinal section.

In the accompanying drawing it will be seen that the device is used in combination with the usual shoe 1 and the laces 2. Carried near the upper portion of the shoe there is a binding member which constitutes the supuse after the shoe has been laced the laces are then wound around the neck 5 as illustrated 1n Fig. 1, for preventing the same from coming loose after which the free ends are engaged by the clamping member. This clamping member comprises the supporting plate 7 which carries the anchoring spurs 8 which are formed similar to the anchoring spurs 4 and which allow the supporting plate 7 to .be attached to the shoe similar to the supporting plate 3. Struck from the body portion of the supporting plate 7 there are a pair of pivot ears 9 which are provided with the apertures 10. The

clamping arm 11 is pivotally secured to these ears by means of the pin 12 which fits within the aperture 10. This clamping armll is provided'with a pocket portion 13 adjacent which is formed the inwardly bent portion 14. lVhen the device is in use the pocket portion 13 is adapted to receive the laces 2,

as illustrated in Fig. 2, and the bent portion,

let forms a means for preventing said laces from slipping out of the pocket At the other end of the clam'pi arnir 11 there is formed a spring containing pocket 15 which is adapted to receive the sprang 16 when the device is in its correct position. The plate 7 is also provided with the lug 17 over which the spring is placed. By .us-.: of this lug it will be seen that the spring will be g's'revented from moving laterally or otherwiseupon the plate, but that the lug is suiiiciently short as to allow the clamping arm to be swung and the spring compressed since this lug 17 will pass up into the pocket 15..

By referring to the foregoing description it will be seen that a device has been produced whereby the laces will be securely held after the shoe has been laced and that the free ends of the lace will be so held as to prevent the laces from becoming loosened.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new, is

A shoe-string clamp comprising a plate, a plurality of retaining spurs formed upon the outer periphery of said plate for holding said plate upon a shoe, pivot tioned at a spaced distanee fromplate In testimonyi wheieofl fi-hereofito afiijh ly for the accommodation of-a shoe-string, Sitid l signature-inpresence of two witnesses. ears limitin fthe mw'a-rd movement of 1;he

stringshwithm saidpocket, and; sprin 5 ried by said plate and beai' ing-upon s ai arm v.

for holding said'inwardly bent portion I Bm. YA'ma, engagementwithseid p1ate.' I 

